26-29 July 2026 | MCEC Melbourne

Category: Ingredients

With ever-increasing consumer demands for brands to develop and innovate their product range, Professor Jason Stokes tells us why deep research and development into the connection between product structure, properties and manufacturing processes, is a vital component to long-term market success for food and beverage companies.
Food production is required to scale continuously to keep up with rate in which population is growing. Plus, the way in which food is produced needs to be more sustainable to protect the future of the planet for the generations to come.

Originally used by monks in the 13th century, monk fruit has come a long way from its humble origins as a small green gourd growing in the Guilin mountains of China. Dried whole, the fruit was traditionally used as a sweetener and in traditional Chinese medicine, but for centuries was

Smit Zaveri has been a vegetarian since childhood. A few years ago, he decided he wanted to eliminate animal products from his diet entirely. ā€œWhen I tried to look for vegan ingredients and supplements in Australia, I wasn’t finding a lot of options, and those that were available were very